A Strange Research Project

by Mark Bauerlein

A research center whose subject is religion doesn’t take seriously the actual religion of its subjects. Continue Reading »

8 May 2017 0

A Descriptivist Leaves her Stamp

by Mark Bauerlein

The old job of the dictionary to prescribe proper usage is over, say the lexicographers. How did we end up with these people in charge? Continue Reading »

2 May 2017 0

Conservatism’s New Terms

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 27. Also featuring: Boston’s re-frocked priest; Pence’s rules; and the downsides of radical inclusion. Continue Reading »

17 Apr 2017 0

Uncovering Carnage

by Connor Grubaugh

Ending the devastation wrought by opioids in American communities requires us to acknowledge that the crisis exists. Continue Reading »

13 Apr 2017 0

Keep the Mighty from the Small

by Matthew Schmitz

Anna Stubblefield had dedicated much of her career to advocating for the “radical inclusion” of disabled persons—and given her principles, rape was the only way to do it. Continue Reading »

7 Apr 2017 0

What We've Been Reading—3.31.17

by Editors

Alexi Sargeant: I read Brian Tinsman’s The Game Inventor's Guidebook, a how-to for aspiring game designers, including lots of insider stories from the board game industry. Continue Reading »

31 Mar 2017 0

Suburban Coercion

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 26. Featuring: FX’s The Americans, and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Continue Reading »

31 Mar 2017 0

The Evolving American Constitution: Change Without Amendment

by David T. Koyzis

There is a case to be made that the British and American constitutions are not that different after all. Continue Reading »

30 Mar 2017 0

Charles Taylor and the Communion of the Saints

by Dale M. Coulter

Taylor’s prescription for our secular age remains connected to his reading of Christian tradition, in particular his understanding of the communion of the saints. Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2017 0

The Bible and Colonial America

by Glenn Moots

Mark Noll’s reliance on a reductive caricature of Protestant political theology causes him to give a false impression of how most colonial American Protestants deployed sacred and secular sources in their political thought. Continue Reading »

22 Mar 2017 0